THE CUBA REVIEW 



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ALL AROUND CUBA 



INTERESTING NEWS NOTES REGARDING VARIOUS MATTERS PERTAINING 



TO THE ISLAND 



A stock company under the name of 

 "Compania Ccrvecera Internacional" has 

 been incorporated in Havana, with a cap- 

 ital of $1,000,000 for the manufacture of 

 beer. 



The capital of the company will be 

 represented by five thousand preferred 

 shares, valued at $100 each, and five thou- 

 sand common stock shares of the same 

 par value. 



Cuba at present has only two breweries, 

 the Tropical and the Havana. 



The application of the Spanish minister 

 to have the legation building in Havana 

 e.xempted from taxes has been reported 

 favorably. The exemption is recommended 

 on the grounds that it is a courtesy due 

 Spain, and that the Spanish minister has 

 notified the government that the day Cuba 

 shall own its own legation building in 

 Madrid it will receive a like courtesy. 



The theory of the department of sani- 

 tation that a man cannot be a government 

 official and act as the technical manager 

 of a drug store, has been sustained by 

 the president. The department of sani- 

 tation offered one of its officers, who is 

 also the owner of a drug store, the alter- 

 native of resigning his office or appointing 

 another man to attend to the drug store. 



Congressman Julian Betancourt, presi- 

 dent of the Cuban baseball league, pro- 

 poses to introduce a bill asking congress 

 to vote $20,000 to bring the champion 

 teams of the American major leagues to 

 Cuba next fall for a series of games w-ith 

 the Cuban nines. 



A $500 trophy has been conceded by the 

 city council to be competed for the base- 

 ball clubs in the Cuban league, to become 

 the property of the team winning the 

 championship three times. 



Speaker Ferrara on April 26th gave some 

 words of advice to congressmen concern- 

 ing bills calling for appropriations. With 

 no funds available, in excess of those pro- 

 vided for in the budget, it is useless, he 

 announced to the house, to consider new 

 appropriations. 



Edwin V. ^Morgan, formerly United 

 States minister to Cuba, and now minis- 

 ter to Paraguay, was appointed minister 

 to Portugal on April 15th. 



The Havana city council approved a 

 resolution to levy a tax of one hundred 

 dollars per annum upon all fortune tell- 

 ers, soothsayers and hypnotists. 



President Gomez has signed the decree 

 naming Dr. Aristides Agramonte, presi- 

 dent of the comi.iistion on infectious dis-' 

 eases, and Dr. Hugo Roberts, chief of the 

 quarantine service, to attend as delegates 

 of the Republic of Cuba to the interna- 

 tional sanitary convention, which is to be 

 held in Paris this month. The delegates 

 are allowed $1,500 for expenses. 



United States Vice Consul General 

 Springer, who has been confined to his 

 home in the Vedado for some little time, 

 as the result of an accident, is now rap- 

 idly convalescing and will be able to re- 

 sume his official duties very soon. 



Plans for a provincial exhibition to take 

 place in Camaguey next September were 

 thoroughly discussed April 26th by Gov- 

 ernor Caballero, members of the chamber 

 of commerce and business men with Sec- 

 retary of Agriculture, Commerce and 

 Labor Junco. 



The gorgeous black and gold liveries 

 worn by the "zacatecas," or paid pallbear- 

 ers, furnished by the local undertakers 

 established to assist at funerals will no 

 longer be used in Havana. 



Henceforth the helpers are to be garbed 

 in neat duck suiting, which can be laun- 

 dered after each occasion on which it is 

 used. 



Dr. Jose Antonio Lopez del Valle, local 

 health officer of Havana, is the ma.i be- 

 hind the new order, claiming that the cloth 

 uniforms were unhygienic. 



Eaithquake shocks alarmed the inhabit- 

 ants of Santiago de Cuba and of Guanta- 

 namo, during the afternoon of April 6th 

 and 29th. The oscillations lasted about 

 fifteen seconds and came from the north. 

 There was no damage. On April 29th a 

 severe shock was felt at Cristo, near San- 

 tiago, but likewise without damage. 



A rich merchant of Cienfuegos purposes 

 to rent an old coffee plantation in Trini- 

 dad and conduct it on a large scale. Cof- 

 fee planting is on the increase in this rich 

 region. 



Construction work has begun on the 

 lazareto on Cayo Duran, Santiago harbor. 

 There is on this island ample ground for 

 immigrants quarters. 



A new modern market is projected for 

 Havana, to be used solely for the sale of 

 merchandise and will contain no living 

 apartments. It will benefit largely resi- 

 dents of the city's suburbs. 



